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The Barrington community is rallying together for the third consecutive year to raise funds for the thousands of people living in the Guatemala City garbage dump. The giant fundraising effort, the Hope's in Style Fashion Show, takes place Sunday, March 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Stonegate Conference Centre in Hoffman Estates. Created by Barrington High School graduate Courtney Quigley, Hope's in Style has given many BHS students a chance to design their own outfits based on photos taken of the garbage dump community. This year, two Barrington middle school students and students from Loyola Academy in Wilmette and Warren Township High School in Gurnee are also participating....

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The Barrington community is rallying together for the third consecutive year to raise funds for the thousands of people living in the Guatemala City garbage dump.
The giant fundraising effort, the Hope's in Style Fashion Show, takes place Sunday, March 8...

College events, achievements and more throughout the county.
Carthage College, Kenosha
Study tour: Holly Hamilton of Lake Villa participated in a J-Term study tour to Honduras with the college. The "Biodiversity, Brains, and Behavior" study...

St. Mary Catholic Community School in Crown Point recently welcomed three Guatemalan exchange students, according to a press release from Principal Tom Ruiz. Eighth-graders Maria Emilia Pintor Falla and Carlos Bland Miron, and seventh-grader Rigoberto...

Paul Humpal was enjoying a beer with his daughter and her husband on the porch of his Wisconsin home on the Fourth of July weekend. His son-in-law, 28, was listening to a Jefferson Airplane song from the ‘60s on his cell phone
“I looked at him and...

By Jonah Goldberg
All you need to do is look at the headlines out of Central America to see why tens of thousands of children are ending up at our border.
"In Columbia (sic), Rising Violence Breeds New Doubts" (The New York Times);...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a response to the crisis of unaccompanied children crossing our southern border. He's calling up the National Guard. To do what? Provide day care?
After all, this latest wave of undocumented immigrants is making headlines...

For as long as Sarah Hess can remember, she has been an advocate for children in need.
"My mom, Mary Hess, was a teacher, and my dad (the late G. Alfred Hess Jr.) was a school reformer here in Chicago," says Hess, 29. "There was a layer of...

A strong earthquake shook the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Monday, killing at least four people, including a newborn boy, damaging dozens of buildings and triggering landslides.
The 6.9 magnitude quake struck near the frontier. Much of the...

Romantic comedies are filled with stories of opposites attracting, but the truth is, opposing personalities can tear a relationship apart.
Just ask Erik and Mark Sosa-Kibby of Kenosha.
Erik, 38, admits that he is the stereotypical artist with his head...

There are a few delicious reasons turkey serves as the centerpiece of so many Thanksgiving celebrations.
The versatile bird is adaptable to a multitude of preparations and comfortable with all sorts of ingredients. Long before it fed those Pilgrims at...

The trauma remains overwhelming six years after gang members in Guatemala chased the man off a bus and tried to gun him down. Making it worse, a corrupt cop viciously beat him with a pistol and threatened his life.
Now a Chicagoan, the man was granted...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Guatemala for a two-day visit with Central American presidents to discuss funding priorities aimed at slowing migration. Last month, President Barack Obama included $1 billion for Central America in the...

Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and others have blamed the current measles outbreak on children illegally crossing the southern border of the U.S.
"Children sick, healthy, you name it — poor, ill-educated, just tens of thousands of kids...

After a daylong slog through the suffocating Guatemalan jungle, we emerged before a soaring pyramid in the ghostly ruins of El Tintal, our first stop in the forested realm of the Serpent King.
A slight breeze stirred the air, offering a respite from...

Experience Guatemala's rich cultural heritage from a unique perspective in February when a four-day Antigua culinary tour blends Southern-style United States cuisine with Maya flavors. The Cultiva Tours itinerary includes sightseeing in Antigua, as well...

The White House is expanding a public campaign aimed at dispelling rumors in the U.S. and Latin America about its rules regarding deportation of young immigrants — part of an effort to slow the rising number of minors crossing into the U.S. without...

Sonia Nazario, the writer, found Enrique in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in May 2000. She and Don Bartletti, the photographer, spent two weeks with him there and rejoined him at the end of his journey in North Carolina. Then, based on Nazario's extensive...

President Obama will send a letter to Congress on Monday requesting more than $2 billion to pay for tighter border enforcement and humanitarian assistance to respond to the swell of children from Central America illegally crossing the border without their...